The Chicago Food Policy Action Council (CFPAC) co-facilitates, advocates, and implements policies that advance food justice & sovereignty in Chicago and across the region. We work to ensure that all Chicagoans, especially black, indigenous, and residents of color, have the right to produce and access culturally appropriate, nutritious, sustainable and fair food.

CFPAC envisions a food system where all Chicagoans, regardless of race, class, gender, and/or social identity, have the right to healthy and culturally-appropriate food produced through community-driven, ecologically regenerative, and economically viable processes. The Council recognizes the history and modern maintenance of structural racism in Chicago and across the country that have led to massive inequities in land access, food business ownership, food security, and political power along lines of racial identity. CFPAC works to address these inequities and dismantle racist structures in the food system by building local political power, supporting frontline workers throughout the food system, and facilitating Black/Brown partnerships and understanding.